parse_file cannot parse windows-1251 encoding

[Former user]

I try to parse the following bibtex file, which contains Cyrillic letters.

here is the file mybib.bib

% Encoding: windows-1251 @article{Demidov-2010, author = {Д.Е. Демидов and А.Е. Егоров and А.Н. Нуриев}, title = {Решение задач вычислительной гидродинамики с применением технологии Nvidia CUDA}, journal = {Ученые записки Казанского Государственного Университета}, year = {2010}, volume = {152}, pages = {142--154} }

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The following code in Python 3.7

from pybtex.database import parse_file bib_data = parse_file('mybib.bib')

produces the error

PybtexError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 64: invalid continuation byte.

If I open the file in Notepad++ and change encoding to utf-8, I see this byte in this position, but neither Bibtex nore Jabref give any error.

Is there any way to read Cyrillic with pybtex?

[Andrey Golovizin]

Hi,

Pybtex uses the UTF-8 encoding by default. It is generally easier to embrace the Unicode and use UTF-8 for all your source files. :)

If you still need to use the legacy Windows-1251 encoding, you can tell Pybtex about that with the --encoding option:

$ pybtex --encoding cp1251 <filename>

Thanks for using Pybtex. :)